 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1793 - 386 pages
...Youth. To D***d M*****u E*****e. — ' The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current fkirn, Some fliew their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. ' To contemplation's sober eye,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...present reading. Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...little are the Great. Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how'thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...corrected it on acStill is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : b Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...great! Still is the toiling hand of Care, The panting herds repose, Yet hark ! how thro' the peopled lir The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noou*; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...indigent the Great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...proud, How indigent the Great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...indigent the great! Still is the toiling hand of Care, The panting herds repose, Yet hark ! how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim. Some shew their... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet, the vennl year : • Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! wjjig, Hager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...proud. How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herd's repose : Yet 2 郜 2 w 3 .}ŝSd &? XY -4 9... ˵ xʴ & 1bЕ } %H T29 . G V * } e X܃ honied spring, And float amid thfi liquid noun !: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
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The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 
